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Illinois  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home, 

Quincy,  Illinois. 


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Copyright,  1897,  by  Illinois  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home,  Quincy. 


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The  Illinois  Soldiers’  and  vSailors’  Home  is  located  on  a  tract  of  222  acres,  adjoining  the  City  of 
Quincy  on  the  North.  The  ground  is  on  a  plateau,  partly  wooded,  lying  between  two  creeks  and  affording 
a  beautiful  site  for  such  an  institution.  The  Wabash  and  C.  B.  &  R.  R.  have  a  station  on  the  premises. 
The  Home  was  opened  in  March,  1887,  since  which  time  up  to  October  1st  there  have  been  4,116  admissions, 
and  there  are  now  on  the  rolls  1,645  ;  1,332  present  and  313  absent.  There  are  seventeen  brick  cottages. 
The  boiler  house,  general  kitchen,  store  house,  laundry,  machine  shop  and  the  Administration  building 
are  of  stone.  The  hospital  is  one  of  the  most  complete  institutions  of  its  kind  in  the  country,  built  of  brick, 
and  has  all  the  modern  appliances  necessary. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  officials  of  the  Home  October  1,  1897  : 

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Wm.  Somerville,  Superintendent,  E.  E.  Higgins,  Adjutant, 

Dr.  R.  H.  Jones,  Surgeon,  Dr.  C.  E  Ehle,  Ass’t  Surgeon. 

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Col.  James  A.  Sexton,  Chicago, 

Capt.  J.  W-  Niles  Sterling. 

Capt.  W.  O.  Wright,  Freeport. 

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Col.  James  A.  Sexton,  President, 

William  Murray,  Secretary, 

E.  H.  Osborn,  Treasurer. 


Soldiers’  Monument  and  PIeadquarters 


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Cottage  Row  and  Main  Drive. 


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Headquarters  Building 


Guard  Station  at  Town  Entrance. 


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Old  Men’s  Cottage 


Cottage  View. 


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Pension  Tree— Wabash  &  c.  B.  &  Q.  R.  R,  Depot. 

A  Social  Game, 


View  toward  Quincy— Flower  Beds  and  Main  Drive. 
Assembly  Rooms. 


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Hospital  and  Annex 


View  S.  W.  from  Headquarters. 


View  N.  W.  from  Headquarters 


Flower  Beds,  Headquarters  and  Hospital 


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Quartermaster's,  Kitchen,  Engine  House  and  Laundry. 


Bridge  and  Glen. 


Kitchen. 

Cedar  Creek,  Sewage  Basins  and  Dairy  Barn, 


Carrying  Dinner  from  Kitchen. 
At  Dinner  in  the  Hospital. 


